Reckoning
['rek(ə)nɪŋ] or ['rɛkənɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reckon
(n.) The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation.
(n.) An account of time
(n.) Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc.
(n.) The charge or account made by a host at an inn.
(n.) Esteem; account; estimation.
(n.) The calculation of a ship's position, either from astronomical observations, or from the record of the courses steered and distances sailed as shown by compass and log, -- in the latter case called dead reckoning (see under Dead); -- also used for dead reckoning in contradistinction to observation.
(n.) The position of a ship as determined by calculation.
整理:康拉德
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Counting, computation, calculation.[2]. Account, register, score, charge, bill.
錄入:温思罗普
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Computation, account, score, bill, charges
手打:凯勒
例句/造句/用法:
- By an inspection of the trains, and by reckoning the time. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The chances against me wanted no reckoning up--they were all merged in one. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Do you call the whole reckoning? 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- It is strange; I had lost the just reckoning of her age. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Probably man began reckoning time by the clock of the full and new moons. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- There was no replying to this very apposite conclusion, and, therefore, Mr. Pickwick, after settling the reckoning, resumed his walk to Gray's Inn. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- It ain't Locks as YOU'VE been a reckoning up,' said Riderhood, when the schoolmaster's eyes came back again. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The earliest recorded reckoning is by moons and by generations of men. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He had to keep himself in reckoning with the world of work and material life. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- They'll find themselves mistaken this time, I fancy,--a little out of their reckoning. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- There you go, said Cassy, looking darkly after him; your reckoning's to come, yet! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- No fresh outbreak of anger against him, no new appeal to me to hasten the day of reckoning escaped her. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I called the waiter, paid the reckoning, got into my coat, put on my hat and started out the door. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- He said this with the air of one carefully reckoning up and striking a balance. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Reckoning the ordinary dividend of the bank of England at five and a-half per cent. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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